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RJ

December 31, 2012 - 00:56

3 yrs ago I was in Russia.1 litre milk was about $4.75 canadian.Dozen eggs $5.25
We got it pretty good here....I had to line up for 3 hours for bread over there.
Ppl need to stop complaining and be grateful we have it so good.

Food is not dirt cheap. If it was dirt cheap, then people that are dirt poor wouldn't have to pick kraft dinner and pepsi over a vegetable pasta dish with milk. If you've had to pay rent and buy groceries on minimum wage (and god help you if you're a single mother) then you know that food isn't cheap at all and entering the workforce without an education is a practical death sentence.

Well how about you change your life to get out of the minimum wage society.

David is the one who is small minded. David are you implying that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians should all move off to the mainland with our natural resources?

December 29, 2012 - 20:55

David you said "Yes...I must be, Willy. Because no one in Newfoundland can think beyond their the end of their own nose, or have an opinin that isn't perfectly small-minded, wildly oblivious to reality, and based on a Newfoundland-centric universe "DAVID IT APPEARS TO me that you have described the inept politicians, both provincial and federal, who have governed Newfoundland and Labrador over the past 63 years and who gave away our great natural resources in the raw state so that other areas of Canada could prosper because that is the way Ottawa and Canadians in general wanted it . The politicians, Ottawa and the jurisdictions that became the beneficiary of our raw natural resources prospered but Newfoundland and Labrador suffered greatly. It should have been a cinch to have created the greatest economy in Canada given Newfoundland and Labrador's strategic location and its great resource base. DAVID STOP TRYING TO PULL THE WOOL OVER NEWFOUNDLANDERS AND LABRADORIAN' EYES. With the way technology is today, business can be conducted anywhere on earth and yes David Newfoundlanders and Labradorians consume food, too, are you saying we should go to mainland Canada along with our raw natural resources so that we can consume our food.

David you don't have your thinking cap on, if the suppliers of groceries were going in deficit from operating in Newfoundland and Labrador, they would not be here, they would quickly abandon their operations and pass it over to the local suppliers. I pnly wish they would do that it would make room for a Newfoundland and Labrador local supplier of groceries to move into their spot and become ultra-rich.

It amazes me that anyone bothers to be a supplier of groceries in Newfoundland. Given the market's geographic requirement for more low-volume store locations, the logistics nightmare called Marine Atlantic, the general frugality (both economically circumstantial and simply genetic) of Newfoundland consumers, and of course every one of their staff has to be paid a steadily increasing minimum wage, and I really don't see the business case for being here at all.....at least, not for the miniscule profit margin they might currently have.

You must be a supplier of groceries who can't make it so you are blaming your customers.

david

December 29, 2012 - 15:44

Yes...I must be, Willy. Because no one in Newfoundland can think beyond their the end of their own nose, or have an opinin that isn't perfectly small-minded, wildly oblivious to reality, and based on a Newfoundland-centric universe.

HBG

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